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Issue 6 November 2011
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Theater and Transitional Justice in Afghanistan: Podcast with Hadi Marifat

In this podcast, ICTJ speaks with Hadi Marifat, founder of the Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organization (AHRDO). ICTJ, AHRDO and local Afghan organizations are working together on an innovative artsbased approach to discussing Afghanistans conflict and transitional justice issues at the grassroots level.
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AFRICA The United States sent 100 military advisors to Uganda to help combat the rebel Lords Resistance Army, responsible for widespread human rights violations. Sexual violence against men perpetrated by armed militias in the DRC is under-reported and poorly addressed, according to a new Sexual Violence Research Initiative report. Despite being a party to the Rome Statute, Malawi failed to arrest Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir during his visit to the country for a regional summit. Human Rights Watch urged the Kenyan government to investigate more than 300 forced disappearances allegedly committed by local militia and Kenyan security forces between 2006 and 2008. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and activist Leymah Gbowee were recipients of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for
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AMERICAS The Colombian government is investigating over 4,500 ex-combatants demobilized under the Justice and Peace process for human rights crimes, a new government report stated. Brazils Senate Constitution and Justice Committee approved the creation of a National Truth Commission to examine unsolved serious crimes committed between 1946 and 1988, while confirming the validity of the 1979 Amnesty law. Authorities in Guatemala ordered the arrest of former president Oscar Mejia to face charges of genocide during the 36-year civil war. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the government of El Salvador to fully investigate the cases of hundreds of children who disappeared during the nations civil war. The ICC began investigating whether the leaders of the coup that took place in Honduras in 2009 should be prosecuted by the international court. A report by the Red Cross concluded that nearly 16,000 Peruvians died as victims of terrorism between 1980 and 2000, doubling what the Commission for Truth and Reconciliation calculated in 2003.
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ASIA In a continuing effort to reconcile ethnic tensions, the Burmese government offered peace talks to different warring rebel groups in Burmas border regions. The UN Security Council extended the mandate of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan until October 2012, to continue security system reform efforts. A United Nations judge resigned from the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia on the ground that the trial is being manipulated by the Cambodian government, echoing doubts about the impartiality of the court. UK based charity Freedom from Torture has provided medical evidence to the UN supporting claims that Sri Lankan state actors have used torture against opponents after the end of the civil war. Indonesias human rights commission launched an investigation into the deadly crackdown by Indonesian forces on an independence rally in West Papua.
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EUROPE German prosecutors reopened hundreds of investigations of former Nazi death camp guards for war crimes, following a precedent set by the conviction of former Poland camp guard John Demjanjuk in May 2011. Judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) rejected the petition to split the indictment for Serbian General Ratko Mladic, charged with genocide and war crimes committed in Bosnia in the 1990s. Serbian politician Seselj, on trial before the ICTY for war crimes, has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for leaking confidential information about the trials witnesses.
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The Israeli defense ministry issued a formal apology to Egypt for the killing of five Egyptian soldiers in August. Tunisias moderate Islamist party won the countrys first democratic elections following the uprising which ousted former President Ben Ali. Hundreds of prisoners have been secretly executed in Iran, a new UN report on the human rights abuses in the country said. Judge Sir David Baragwanath was unanimously elected as the President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and Presiding Judge of the Appeals Chamber replacing Judge Antonio Cassese who passed away a few days later. Libyas former leader Muammar el-Qaddafi died of wounds suffered during his capture near his hometown of Sirte. Following the Palestinian-Israeli prisoners exchange, Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal called on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to meet next month in Cairo to implement the May Reconciliation Agreement. Yemeni Peace activist Tawakul Karman said her Nobel Peace Prize was a victory for Yemen and all Arab Spring revolutions and a message that the era of Arab dictatorships was over.
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Morocco: Gender and the Transitional Justice Process
This paper examines the impact of gender-focused transitional justice measures adopted in Morocco. In one of the first transitional justice programs implemented by an Arab country, Moroccos Equity Reconciliation Council (IER) has included stipulations on including women in transitional justice process and highlighted human rights abuses pertaining specifically to women such as sexual assault, rape, and torture.
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Transitional Justice in the Western Balkans: Is a Regional Truth Commission Possible?

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